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Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Meghan McCain to depart The View at the end of the season after nearly four years — Meghan McCain is departing “The View,” after nearly four years on the ABC daytime show, Variety has confirmed. — As the panel's resident conservative talking head, McCain regularly sparred with her co-hosts …
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Emily VanDerWerff / Vox:
How Isabel Fall published, and unpublished, a sci-fi story reclaiming a transphobic meme, receiving praise and then harsh Twitter censure that upended her life — Isabel Fall's sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Alden Global Capital has given buyouts to at least 10% of its newsroom workforce since it acquired Tribune Publishing six weeks ago, based on NewsGuild data — Some former Tribune Publishing papers — like the Chicago Tribune and The Morning Call — lost even more: upwards of 20% of union staff.
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Profile of Joe Rogan, from 2000s standup comedian to controversial podcaster with an exclusive Spotify deal, as he settles in Austin and returns to comedy — He's now one of the most consumed media products on the planet. His Spotify deal, estimated at $100 million, speaks to the allure …
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Amaris Castillo / Poynter:
As mainstream media jumps on the UFO story, journalists who covered the sightings for years push for greater skepticism — How do journalists balance the offbeat nature of the subject — with its decades of conspiracies and skeptics — with their credibility?
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New York Times:
A look at the new guard of fashion editors who are younger and less familiar, but more diverse and have a different set of priorities than the imperial editors — Business and culture have conspired to kill off a passé persona. — On Monday, when the fashion world will gather …
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Raleigh News & Observer:
UNC trustees voted to approve tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones after controversy over her hire without tenure as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism — Listen to our daily briefing: — UNC-Chapel Hill trustees voted to approve tenure for distinguished journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones …
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Politico:
Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller leads GETTR, a Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture — Former President Donald Trump's team quietly launched a new social media platform on Thursday, billing it as an alternative to Big Tech sites.
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Zainab Iqbal / Poynter:
A Muslim journalist discusses how people react to her reporting, including racist and ignorant comments, in person and online, from sources and other reporters — The drive to report the truth of one's community prevails despite hateful and ignorant comments
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Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app” — - Facebook's head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Group M: Google, Facebook, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Amazon claimed 46% of global ad revenues in 2020; in 2010, the then top 5, including News Corp, claimed 17% — Five tech companies today account for nearly half of the world's advertising revenue, a report has found.
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Maaisha Osman / ONA Student Newsroom:
News organizations see data visualization as a way to educate but readers struggle to understand graphs and need publishers to help walk them through the data — While eye-catching data viz pieces like the Financial Times “Coronavirus tracker” or New York Times “The Pandemic Has Split in Two …
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